News reaches me from Chicago that a Klingon Christmas Carol is being performed. Indeed, the…
Read more Read more

Jonathan Brown has studied Klingon for 12 years, and after translating the language for a CD project, he's found that the mellifluous alien tongue has allowed him to assess language differently. Said Brown to the BBC:

Dyslexia is not something you get over, you live with it. It's not necessarily a hindrance, you just learn different ways to pick things up.

Working on the translation has helped me understand where I've been having problems all my life with languages, I realised I'd been trying to remember the words in the name part of my brain and because I can't remember names, I can't remember the words.

With the Klingon language games used on the CD, I tended to put words into a different place and it went into my long term memory.

Advertisement

The article doesn't go into the hard specifics of Brown's method, but if this song becomes a staple of dyslexia therapy regimens, I can live with that.